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Nathan Keyfitz, the director of Harvard's Center for Population Studies and a recent adviser to the United States Census Bureau on ways to accurately adjust its population count, said yesterday that a recent court ruling on census undercounts "may result in basic reinterpretations of the Constitution...
...Constitution says that the population shall "be enumerated.' "In the past, the Justice Department has interpreted the enumerated to be only those who were actually counted, without including the undercount as an official part of the census," Keyfitz said...
...Chicago judge ruled earlier this month that the Census Bureau had missed a substantial portion of the city's Black population and ordered the Bureau to submit a "statistically defensible" method of including the undercount in its total...
...What I have discussed with the census bureau is a process that matches census files with other administrative files such as medicare and social security and may account for some who were missed by the census. People may often avoid the census for one reason, but that same reason may not prevent them from being registered on some other government files," Keyfitz said...
...three of its residents are supported by public assistance: welfare, food stamps, social security, unemployment insurance or some other government program. Two years ago, Community Board 5, one of the six community boards of the South Bronx, had the highest welfare dependency rate in the United States. The 1970 census revealed a median annual income of $5,500, with $7,183 considered the baseline for a "low" standard of living in the New York area. At that time, 70 per cent of the teenagers in this community were out of work...